Likelihood : an account of the statistical concept of likelihood and its application to scientific inference
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Likelihood : an account of the statistical concept of likelihood and its application to scientific inference
Cambridge University Press, 1972
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Bibliography: p. 219-224
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Dr Edwards' stimulating and provocative book advances the thesis that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but rather likelihood - the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support amongst different hypotheses. Starting from the simplest considerations and assuming no more than a modest acquaintance with probability theory, the author sets out to reconstruct nothing less than a consistent theory of statistical inference in science.
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